A new poll suggests people who are unvaccinated back one leader — Danielle Smith — to a remarkable degree.
“I think it’s perhaps the strongest correlation I have ever seen in a political poll,” EKOS pollster Frank Graves said.
The respondents who believed the fewest pieces of false information were more likely to support the NDP, while those who scored highest on the poll’s “disinformation index” tended to support the UCP. Enthusiasm for the shot does seem to have fallen more sharply in Alberta in recent months than in other parts of the country. According to Health Canada, as of late April about 12.8 per cent of Canadians had received either a booster or their primary set of COVID vaccines in the last six months. But in Alberta, that number drops to just 6.4 per cent — the lowest provincial rate in the country by a significant margin.
“My concern is that when politicians like Smith push anti-vax rhetoric , it legitimizes and normalizes the harmful misinformation,” he said in an email. “Also, it becomes part of a political platform.”
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